Vocabulary
Personality
1 Complete the text with the words from the box.
punctual bossy✓ sensitive dynamic
self-centred ambitious organised
easy-going indecisive conscientious
teenage bloggers
I've got a sister and a brother. My brother, Peter, is older than me
and he's really bessy-he's always telling me what to do!
But he's fun to be with because he's very 2
- he's
got t lots of energy and great ideas about things to do. Sometimes
his plans go very wrong because he isn't very 3
He never plans things carefully. Of course, he's always late - he
isn't
at all! He thinks about himself a lot of the
time, so he can be a bit s
My younger sister, Kate, is very different. She can be difficult
because she gets upset easily-I suppose she's very
6
so she can be 7
. Sometimes she takes ages to make her mind up,
She's works very hard and she's
. She always does things carefully. I think it's
- she wants to be rich and
very
because she's very
successful in the future!
I'm very calm, relaxed and 10
very different, but we get on well and enjoy
doing things together.
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.. I suppose we're all
2 Write the opposites. Use the correct negative
prefix, un-, in-, im- or dis-.
indecisive
1 decisive
2 successful
3 tidy
4 organised
5 polite
6 ambitious
7 sensitive
8 sociable
9 punctual
10 dynamic
Listening
3
Look at the cartoon and match the
questions 1-3 with the answers a-c.
1 What does your
boyfriend look like?
2 What is he like?
3 What does he like?
a Sport and music.
b He's tall and good-looking
c He's sociable.
4 Look at the cartoon in exercise 3 again. What
do you think the interview is about?
a People describing their boyfriend or girlfriend.
b A girl describing how she met her boyfriend.
Daniel:
56 Listen to the interview with Rachel and
Daniel and choose the correct adjectives for
each person. There is one extra word.
confident shy good-looking beautiful
argumentative quiet calm easy-going
sociable
Rachel:
6 Listen again. Tick (✓) true or cross (X) false
or write (?) if there is no information.
1
2
3
4
Rachel thinks that Daniel is shy even
with people he knows well.
Rachel says that Daniel isn't argumentative
because he doesn't like fights.
Daniel hasn't got a very good memory;
he can never remember facts.
Rachel thinks people who arrive late
are very annoying.
Daniel says that Rachel is more
than he is.
6 Daniel doesn't get all the information
about Rachel correct.
Ответы
Ответ: I've got a sister and a brother. My brother, Peter, is older than me and he's really **bossy** - he's always telling me what to do! But he's fun to be with because he's very **dynamic** - he's got lots of energy and great ideas about things to do. Sometimes his plans go very wrong because he isn't very **organised**. He never plans things carefully. Of course, he's always late - he isn't **punctual** at all! He thinks about himself a lot of the time, so he can be a bit **self-centred**.
My younger sister, Kate, is very different. She can be difficult because she gets upset easily - I suppose she's very **sensitive**, so she can be **indecisive**. Sometimes she takes ages to make her mind up. She works very hard and she's **conscientious**. She always does things carefully. I think it's **ambitious** - she wants to be rich and successful in the future!
I'm very calm, relaxed, and **easy-going**. We're all very different, but we get on well and enjoy doing things together.
2. Write the opposites using the correct negative prefix:
1. decisive
2. unsuccessful
3. untidy
4. disorganized
5. impolite
6. unambitious
7. insensitive
8. unsociable
9. unpunctual
10. undynamic
3. Match the questions with the answers:
1. What does your boyfriend look like?
2. What is he like?
3. What does he like?
a. He's tall and good-looking.
b. He's sociable.
c. Sport and music.
6. Listening Exercise:
- Daniel: **confident**, **good-looking**, **sociable**
- Rachel: **shy**, **quiet**, **calm**, **easy-going**
Listening Answers:
1. ✓ Rachel thinks that Daniel is shy even with people he knows well.
2. ✓ Rachel says that Daniel isn't argumentative because he doesn't like fights.
3. ✗ Daniel hasn't got a very good memory; he can never remember facts.
4. ✓ Rachel thinks people who arrive late are very annoying.
5. ✗ Daniel says that Rachel is more argumentative than he is.
6. ✗ Daniel doesn't get all the information about Rachel correct.
Объяснение: